Forget About Stonehenge, There's a New 'Superhenge' in Town

Large stone monuments found less than 2 miles from Stonehenge point to a 'Superhenge'

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First Pluto was demoted to dwarf planet status, and now everything you know about Stonehenge might be wrong. Well, no one really knows much about the mysterious circle of bluestone rocks in southwest England but the information that’s already out there might need to be changed.

CNNreports that archeologists have found traces of larger stone monuments less than two miles from where Stonehenge lies. The Stonehenge Hidden Landscape Project team says they made the discovery underneath Durrington Walls with the help of some high-tech censors.

 "Our high-resolution ground penetrating radar data has revealed an amazing row of up to 90 standing stones, a number of which have survived after being pushed over, and a massive bank placed over the stones," professor Wolfgang Neubauer, director of the Ludwig Boltzmann Institute for Archaeological Prospection and Virtual Archaeology, revealed.

He added, "In the east up to 30 stones, measuring up to size of 4.5 x 1.5 x 1 meters (14.7 x 5 x 3.3 feet), have survived below the bank whereas elsewhere the stones are fragmentary or represented by massive foundation pits."

The new "superhenge" is said to be about 4,500 years old and may have been used during the Neolithic era for concerts and potlucks. Okay, that last part might not be true. With this discovery, it looks like history books will have to make room for a new addition. 

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